What? I thought for sure you'd agree that spam in this forum doesn't happen that often, and when it does, YaBB's moderators are pretty quick to get rid of it.

Please keep in mind that you're not the only moderator here, so not everyone may be managing spammers the way you do, or in the way you've been instructed to do.

What I have very happily seen firsthand in front of my eyes as I'm smiling about it is the deletion of multiple spam posts as they are being posted. Post up; post deleted!Post up; post deleted!Post up; post deleted! And so on, and so forth.

What I noticed was that all but one of the spammer's posts were deleted as they were being posted, and the one which was left was moved for review to a private area of YaBB that the public thankfully doesn't have to see.

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Would you care to share that as I am sure everybody is interested in any method we all can take to stop spam.

That would be ggn's anti-spam hack that Derek Barnstorm coded for YaBB, and of which Dandello has included in one of YaBB's next versions.

I had previously used this anti-spam measure to successfully stop hundreds of thousands of attempted spam-bot registrations. Not one single spam-bot ever got through. Not one! It was so successful that I ended up allowing immediate registrations without any approval at all; not by email or by admin.

Eventually, I somehow messed up the anti-spam question mod, and only had SpamFruits. But at some point spam-bot automation made it possible for spam-bot registrations to get through (likely with hu-bot help), so I once again began using ggn's anti-spam hack.

Since then, and I'm still keeping my fingers crossed, not a single spam-bot has been able to register.

Morning, noon, or night, have a great one!

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What I am saying is that in my view what has been happening is not significant.

Remember, someone writes a spam-bot program the same as someone writes an anti-spam mod for the forum. áSometimes it is a case of who is smarter

Then we are in agreement after all.

« Last Edit: Feb 11th, 2013 at 7:08am by Bill Myers »

Morning, noon, or night, have a great one!

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